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UGHTINC-UP TIME
7.26 p.m.
TIDE TABLE FOR APRIL
te High Water Low Water Bun- Sun-
A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. rise set
26 10.28 10.52 4.39 4.33 5.38 6.56
27 11.12 11.38 535 5.16 ,-5.37 6.57
28 12.00 6.14 6.04 5.36 6.57
YESTERDAY'S WEATHE1 '
Maximum Temperature - 73-4
Minimum Temperature -• 63
BainfaU Nil
Sunshine U hrs. 9 mins.
VOL. 28—NO. 99
HANSILTON, BERMUDA MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1948
MONIHT-FRIDAY 4B PER COW
SATURDAY - « - - SB PER COPY
Arabs Fleeing Jaffa Under
All-Out Jewish Offensive;
British Troops Intervene
By PETER JOLLIFFE
TEL AVIV, April 25 (Reuter).— British troops with
heavy anti-tank guns appeared tonight to have halted
a large scale attack on Jaffa,
largest all-Arab town in Palestine, by terrorists of the
Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi.
More than 12' hours after
gokig into action at dawn
under the heaviest mortar
barrage yet seen -in Palestine,'
Irgjia issued a communique
saying they had met British
j troops face to face this after-
\. n<M5n.. It referred to heavy
~ «Jlm-tank 'guns being used by
both sides.
Tfae communique claimed that
"hundreds of casualties" had been
inflicted on the Arabs, whom people here had jseen leaving Jaffa
in small boaisf It gave Irgun
losses as four killed and six
wounded and added that "while
fighting is in progress no details
will be given."
Before this Irgun communique
the Tel Aviv radio of Haganah,
who were reported to be taking no
gart in the attack — described
^rgun claims to have penetrated
into Jaffa as "fictitious.
CALL IRRESPONSIBLE
Irgun's action in attacking Jaffa
single-handed was described by
official Jewish Agency eirelcs tonight as "undisciplined" and "irresponsible".
. This Jewish terrorist organisation today virtually took over all
crossroads throughout the city to
direct traffic, closed some streets
and made one-way detours.
Some 200 private cers were reported "missing" by their owners
as Irgun men took them for their
own use. Several taxicabs were
brought tb a standstill because
J".•gun "requisitioned" petrol sup-
iies.
Mortar shells began falling on
Jaffa, ancient port of Jerusalem,
at 7 a.m., after some 3,000 men of
Irgun Zvai Leumi had massed
under cover of darkness along the
no-man's-land frontier separating it from Tel Aviv.
When this barrage —j biggest
mortar barrage of the Arab-Jewish fighting in Palestine so far —
bad been laid, 600 Irgun men
spear-headed the attack. Jewish
sources in Jerusalem said tfaey had
previously delivered an unconditional surrender ultimatum to the
Arabs.
Haganah, the official Jewish
"army," was reported to be taking no part in the attack although
its forces stood to along" the zigzag boundary line between the
two towns. They were reported
to have said they knew nothing of
tfae offensive beforehand. Ipte
QUIET BUT TENSE
Tonight — after daylong fighting — Jaffa was quiet but tense,
according to Palestine Police here.
Reuter's special correspondent
is Tel Aviv cabled that Arabs had
been seen leaving Jaffa in small
boats. Jewish sources in Jerusalem added that "large numbers"
tf Arabs had been leaving the
port fay sea and road.
While the Jews were making
this second seaport onslaught in
five days — they captured Palestine's largest port of Haifa on
Thursday— three British soldiers
were killed and six others injured when an army train was
derailed near Ramleh after a section of the track faad been removed.
Lieutenant General G. H. A.
MacMillan, G.O.C. British troops
in Palestine, tonight imposed martial law in the Arab (Sheikh Jar-
rah) quarter of Jerusalem.
Jews had earlier today attacked the quarter, and martial
law was imposed because the
fighting was threatening the British Withdrawal route on the Jeru-
salem-Nablus road.
AIRPORT CLOSING
Jewish reports said Lydda international airport, one of the biggest air junctions between Europe
and the East, was occupied tonight by the Arab Legion. These
reports were denied by a B.O.A.C.
official who said one company of.,
a British regiment was7 still in
occupation. -'■
The official said the last DC3 to
leave Lydda would take all B.O.
A.C. afoff out tomorrow.
Against the background of today's swift moving developments
in tbe Palestine "war" the three
consuls general named by the U.N.
Security Council on Friday as the
/"PaleatinW, truce committee— Mr.
Thomas Wasson (U.S.), M. Rene
Neuville (France) and M. Jean
Niewenhuys (Belgium) met ? informally in Jerusalem.
So far tbey have received no
official Instructions from the Security Council. "All we know is
What we have read in the newt-
papers and heard on the radia,"
ifaie of them was quoted as saying.
Continued on Page 10
Finnish Communist Coup IJHpH
West Europe
Forestalled, Paper Says
HELSINKI, April 25 (Reuter).—Extremist members of the Finnish Communist Party planned to overthrow the coalition Government and seise power this month while'iFinland was concluding
negotiations with Russia for a military assistance pact, according to
•;the Social! Demokraatti, organ of the Social Democratic Party.
The paper said the revolutionaries changed their plans when
they learned of'tbe counter measures taken by fhe Government,
The counter measures were stated to have included arming the
guards outside 'tltie President's Palace and putting the army and
police on the alert.
The newspaper said the mea who would have led the attack
against the Government included Mauri Ryoma, leading Communist
propagandist, Armas Aikia, organiser of Finnish language broadcasts
from Moscow during the war, and Tore Lehen, member of the Finnish puppet government which Russia established after the Russo-
Finnish war of 1939.
Lehen, one-time Red Army officer, is a former husband of
Hertta Kuusinen Leino, wife of Yrjo Leino, Minister of the Interior
and now head of the secret police.
Police And Demonstrators
Clash In 3 Italian Cities
By HUBERT HARRISON
MILAN, April 25 (Reuter).—
Italian police and demonstrators
clashed in Milan, Turin and
Brescia today. .
A 19-year-old carabiniere, Angeio Mariani, was killed io Milan
when the police fired over the
heads of a crowd which tried to
force 'tis way into Cathedral
Sq*wre after Communists defied
a Government ban to make a demonstration. Several civilians
were injured.
Some persons were also hurt
at Brescia when police charged
a partisans* procession.
Two thousand partisans, wearing red handkerchiefs, wfao tried
to reach the centre of Turin, were
broken up by police squads in
jeeps. No casualties were report*
ed.
Milan's chief of police late tonight reported .the city to be
"completely quiet." Some arrests
have been made.
POLICE ARE "FURIOUS"
• Milan police were tonight described as "furious" at the killing
of their colleague, who was shot
through the heart by a bullet of
smaller calibre than ammunition
used by tfae police.
Left Wing groups claim that
the killing of Mariani was probably an accident. Right Wing
supporters said the Communists
were responsible. The police said
a policeman was murdered in a
similar way a year ago by the
use of a pistol fitted with a silencer.
They stated tfaey did not fire
over the crowd until after Mariani had been killed.
After the demonstration a
Communist named Alberganti
tried, in spite of rain, to organise
a meeting in Loretta Plaza, where
Mussolini was strung up by his
feet and where the Germans executed 15 hostages three years
ago.
The police broke up this meeting and made several arrests. •
People of various political parties expressed pertubation at today's incidents. One man in the
crowd said: "I am not a Communist but why should these
fellows, who fought the Fascists,'
be prevented from celebrating fiie
anniversary of tfaeir success?"
TEAR OFF RED SCARVES
A woman in a red pullover said:
'Why did we fight the Fascists?
For this?" and she pointed to Hie
police tearing off red scarves from
partisans.
•Milan's chief of police said the
casualties were: one carabiniere
killed, two hurt, five demonstrators (including the secretary of
the Milan Partisans' Association),
hurt. Two people were arrested
and seven were detained by tiie
police.
Later, while crowds were rushing along the streets, an old woman threw a bottle from a fourth-
storey window. The Crowd panicked, thinking it was a bomb, and
a policeman fired a few shots at
tbe window.
Sudden flashes of lightning and
deafening claps o*f thunder, followed by a heavy shower, helped
police disperse tbe crowds.
Communists turned tfae civic
rally into a demonstration by suddenly pulling out red scarves and
ties and raising improvised red
flags inside the castle, the walls
of which were surrounded by
armed police supported by truck
loads of troops carrying rifles and
machine guns.
Communists entered the vast
Castello Sforzesco singly because
Continued a p«ge 12
Ship Rans Aground
And Shakes Houses
NEW YORK, April 25
(Reuter). — Dishes rattled,
in houses 200 yards away
today when the American
Liberty ship Charles Tufts
(7,176 tons) ran aground on
Coney Island in a thick fog.
A frantic telephone call
to the police from ' an
alarmed resident declared:
"Somebody's shaking our
house down."
People from along the
foreshore rushed out to
find the ship on the beach.
It had ploughed through a.
30 foot thick breakwater.
The vessel was on the
way to New York from
Marseilles. It was only
slightly damaged and was
expected to be refloated at
high tide,.
(Special to The New Tork Times
and The Royal Gazette)
LONDON, April 25. —A ston*-;
ding defence force to protect western Europe from .future Soviet
aggression £ was strongly urged
here today by The Observer,
London • Sunday newspaper, one
of the most influential' in Britain.
Such a force, The Observer
said, should be. built around the
-present occupation armies in
western Germany and should
consist of military units from
every western European' nation
—plus the United States.
Declaring that the settlement
of relations between the West
and the Soviet Union, "even if
only a basis of agreement to- disagree," is the greatest modern
need, the newspaper said. "Even
the most moderate settlement
would have to include some Russian yielding on two vital o.ues-
tions: international control of
atomic energy andtthe future of
Germany."
Recent history clearly shows,
The Observer declared, that "the
only basis on which to negotiate
successfully with the Kremlin is
one at ready armed strength,"
and thus it is essential that the
West be prepared to reach a
"tolerable settlement" witil Russia before Russia is equipped to
wage atomic warfare.
A decisive advantage in military strength is therefore urgently needed, The Observer said, aad
such an advantage requires "tha
maintenance of a standing force
Of land "and air components behind the Lubeck-Trieste line."
This force, The ObsefcHSr continued, "would have to maintain
a constant margin of effective
superiority ro that of its opponents on the other 'side of the
iroh-curtate;1' Full support of
the United States behind such a
plan, The Observer declared, is
a prime requisite to its' success',
adding that participation would
be far less costly to America than
an eventual attempt to land
troops on a European continent
firmly bald, by enemy forces.
If war broke out in the foreseeable future, The Observer
said, the fate of Europe would be
Coatinntd on Pate *
Socialists Of lo Nations
Urge U.S. Of Europe
1 o
Sea Baptisms
Open Church
Convention.
Prospect Of War
Seen Stronger'
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuter).— The prospect of war; was
stronger fnow than it was three
months ago, General Omar Brad-
lev, United Sattes chief of staff j
told tfiw* Senate armed services
committee, according to evidence
published today and given at last
Wednesday's secret hearing.
" ;Th&if¥idence had been-heavily
censored.
General Bradley said: "We are
a little more afraid that something will happen than We were
three months ago, when wewe^e*
talking in terms of reserves.
"We are hot sure there is no
war ahead right away."
General Bradley, replying to
the committee chairman, said tie
was not dropping his request for
universal • military • training,
"UnhSss' you wish to fight purely a defensive War on'this con-,
tinent you must have trained reserves plus whatever air forces
yoju can get over to England maybe: or to somebody else that is
holding out for the time being.
Otherwise you are going toi sit
here until <yoti can' build it up;
train it and equip it. In the mean-
time, you may have lost all foothold from wfaich you can attack
Russia, because we know that we
are all talking about Russia:"
*£he revised defence programme
upon which the committee was
taking evidence calls for an expenditure of $14,481,000,000 during the 12 months beginning August 1.
Under the revised programme
there would be a 66-group air
force, temporary draft for manpower and approval of a long-
range universal military training
programme.
if$r power in the three branches
■of the armed forces would be built
up.
TWO DIE, 14 HURT IN
iS. TRAIN ACCIDENT
NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuter).
— Two people were killed and 14
were injured when the "Sun
Chaser", Miami to Chicago passenger train, was derailed 17 miles
nojth of Birmingham, Alabama,
early igday. • \:»4fllH*
- First reports said seven-people
were kilted.
A railroad spokesman said ten
cars of a 13-car train left the
rails and two plunged down a
steep embankment.
Royal Silver Wedding Today
B.0. A; C. Start DaOffr Flights;
P. A. A. Put On Extra Planes
B.O.A.C.'s daily service by Constellation to the United States
started yesterday with four
"through passengers" taking advantage of the service from Bermuda to the Unitpd Kingdom.
There was a total of 43 passengers
on the "Speed bird" bound for
New York.
The service, which was announced a month ago, will mean
that Bermudians wishing to go to
tfae United Kingdom can make
immediate connections from Bermuda to New York to England
four times a week on B.OA.C.
planes.
Another advantage is that the
entire trip can be made with
sterling,-involving no expenditure
of dollars. Mr. Eric Wheatley,
Ideal B.O.A.C. manager, said his
company would be prepared to
furnish accommodation in New
York in case of delays in connections.
Those who wish to break their
journey in New York for a few
days, however, can do so at no
additional charge. One-way
tickets will be £97 and round
trip fare £174.12.0.
With the new service which
started yesterday, a passenger
may leave Bermuda at 10.30 a.m.
and be in the United Kingdom by
2.30 the following afternoon.
Constellations will leave Bermuda on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
Fridays and Sundays for New
York and on Mondays, Wednes-
Continued en Pat' I'
GREEK ARMY OFFENSIVE
FREES 1,000 VILLAGERS
ATHENS, April 25 (Reuter).—
One thousand villagers carried
off by guerillas in the Artolina
region ware freed and 8,000 sheep
abandoned by the fleeing guerillas We're recovered in the Greek
offensive in the mountain heights
between Thermopylae and the
.Gulf of Corinth, tonight's Greek
General staff communique said.
The offensive continued today
with air support.
Dr* Gordon Not To Stand
For St*ffGeorge's Despite
Request By Freeholders
FRIGATE ON SHOW T0°
PUBLIC YESTERDAY
Thoughts of. the story of -$■$.
New Testament — and particularly of the baptisms in the River
Jordan — must have been aroused
yesterday in the minds of many
who stood on the rocks edging a
small inlet on the North Shore
and watched four men and five
women one by one led into the
sea and- immersed from head, to
foot.
In such manner did none local
folk become followers of the New
Testament Church of God. The
church, whose history in Bermuda
dates back 25 years, is this week
holding its third annual convention with a four-day programme
Of worship that began yesterday
and will end on Wednesday.
It was an impressive scene that
was witnessed-' -yesterday. A
crowd that at one time numbered
almost 1,000 clustered in groups
from the water's edge to the North
Shore read more than twenty feet
above, their voices raised in
hymns and prayer, their eyes on*
the black-gowned clerics who led
the converts to tfaeir baptism.
Dressed in white from shoulder
to shoe, the conyerts beard the
Rev. Patrick Mills recall the "baptism of Christ in the Jordafrby,
St. John. He reminded the gathering the total immersion was
the practice then and said that
|or that reason the New Testa-
men. Church still admitted newcomers to its fold by the same
practice.
Then, to the- accompaniment of
hymns, the test convert was led
by the arms into the sea by two
officials wearing plain black
gowns of ankle-length and with
full sleeves. When the water
reached'shoulder-height, tiie'trio
turned to face the enngregation,
the singing stopped and tfae Rev.
S. A. Robertson, assistant overseer of the church, recited the
baptismal prayers. With her
Crattaued sb Paft .12
PARIS, April 25 (Reuter).—
The conference of the 15 European
Socialist Parties,,meeting in Paris,
decided tonight to set a permanent
organisation with headquarters in
Paris to explore tiie creation of
a united free states of Europe.
The conference also adopted an
11-point resolution' which makes
provision for the setting, up a
Socialist documentation and propaganda centre. 'iui&i
This, it was stated, was not the
Socialist counterpart of the Corn-
inform but a centre of information. :
The conference had a long debate over a French motion for in-
ternationalisation of the Rhur
under control of a body on which
the Germans vflauld be represented.
Mr. Victor Laroc, member of
the bureau of the Belgian Socialist
Party, said that the Belgian delegation generally accented the main
terms of the proposal.
The resolution adopted by the
conference said the, functions of
tbe new institute would be:
'1. To furnish each European
Socialist. Party with documentation of initiative and progress
concerning the federal unification
of European economy and politics.
2. To assist the action of; tbe
European Socialist Parties in their
Continued on Page 11
"VEENDAM" TO MAKE
4th CRUISE HERE
The cruise ship "Veendam" wiil
make a fourth cruise from New
York to Bermuda the first week in
September,. Mr. Gerald Harnett,
of Harriett and Richardson, tfae
ship's Bermuda agents, announced
on Saturday.
The veendam will leave New
York on Sept. 1, arriving at Hamilton for a 48-hours' stay at 4 p.m.
&» Friday, Sept. 3. She will sail
again the following Sunday at 2
p.ro. and will arrive back in New
York on Sept. 7.
The ship is expected to arrive in
the Colony next Thursday afternoon on her third cruise of the
season.
Will Give Fireworks Show
Id Harbour Tonight
H.M.S. Snipe, frigate of the
America and West Indies -Squad-
-ron of the Royal Navy, which
recently returned te Bermuda
after an exciting cruise to the
Antarctic, was on show< to the
public at No. 1 > dock, yesterday
afternoon and hundreds of local
children and adults as well as
American tourists gave the ship
"the once over".
As soon as the gangway was put
in place at 2 o'clock a crowd of
Bermuda boys and girls scrambled
onto the deck and began an afternoon's "inspection" of the thousand and one fascinating gadgets
on a modern navy ship.
A third of the ship's company
was on board to act as guides for
the visitors and explain the various parts of the ship.
. Snipe arrived in Hamilton Harbour on Saturday morning and
Will remain until tomorrow morning. She is visiting the harbour
in order to give a fire-works display in honour of tiie King and
Queen's silver wedding anniversary today.
. The firework* display will be
given from the ship at 8 o'clock
tonight. The Snipe wiU moor in
the middle of the harbour for the
display, wfaich will include rockets. J iS^-f'.
The officers of the ship' gave a
cocktail party on the quarterdeck . on Saturday evening for
Hamilton civic officials and special guests. The Commander in
Chief, Vice Admiral Sir William
Tennant, attended.
A dance for the ship's company
will be held in Number 1 shed
after tiie fireworks display tonight.
mbsianM^arrested,
says chile newspaper
SANTIAGO, April 25 (Reuter)
:—The Chilean newspaper Impar-
cial reported that a Rumanian spy,
said to be chief of a Soviet espionage organisation, had been arrested in north Chile.
The newspaper, said the espionage organisation had ramifications
throughout America.
\
Dr. EJ?. Gordon, M.C.P., (otherwise "Mazumbo"), has announced
that he definitely will not stand
for St. George's in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections,
despite a request from what fae
termed "more than a cross-section" of freeholders from that
Parish.
When asked if his refusal to
Stand for St. George's meant he
would not be running in any
parish, Dr. Gordon replied; "It's
a good while from now to election
day; who knows what Will happen? I am only answering tfae
letter from the St. George's people,"
. The letter read: "You have faon,-
oured this parish for the past two
years as Qpe of our representatives in the Honourable House of
Assembly. In looking over your
record, we are satisfied that you
have fulfilled your promises to
Bermuda as the instrument by
which the White Paper document
has been forwarded to these Islands to probe into our social,
political and economic problems.
ft is our request as a representative section .of the town of St.
George's that you offer yourself
again as a candidate in the forthcoming general election for the
Parish of St. George's."
Dr. Gordon refused to disclose
tfie names of those persons signing the letter, stating that he had
promised he would not do so.
"Despite the honour that has
b^en offered me, I have not the
slightest intention of contesting
a seat &.$t. George's against any.
coloured candidate," Dr. Gordon
declared. ..#&s^
"I consider such opposition an
insult to my, honest and sincere
efforts in the interests of the underprivileged of Bermuda. It is
high time that I do like so many
others, and look after my own
interests. That is to say, pursue
my medical practice, which has
been largely sacrificed for a people who seem nbt to appreciate
anything unless it is paid for."
In addition to saying that he
would not be a candidate for St.
George's, Dr. Gordon made public
fais "reply" to statements made in
the Legislative Council on Friday
by the Hon. Sir Stanley Spurling.
"AMAZED" AT SIR STANLEY
"I was amazed to see that the
chairman of the Joint Committee should have attempted to
accuse the petition (of the B.WA.).
of containing untruths," fae commented.
Continued en Page 12
Bermuda's Greetings
To King And Queen
His Excellency the Governor has sent the following
message to the Secretary of
State for tiie Colonies on the
occasion of the Royal Silver
Wedding today:
"On behalf of myself aad
the people of Bermuda, I. request you to convey to Their
Majesties this Colony's loyal
greetings and congratulations
on the happy occasion of the
25th anniversary of their
wedding."
ENGLISH SCHOONER HERE
FROM THE WEST INDIES
With her 14& ft. twin masts
towering/ over the water-front
buildings the schooner "Janeen",
owned bv Sir Oliver Simmon?,
steamed into Hamilton Harbour
vesterdav afternoon and docked at
Number 6 Shed.
The schooner, which left Southampton, England on January 1,
was making, her last call on a
"business" voyage round the West
Indies and back to England.
The Janeen arrived in the Colony from Nassau, which she left
on April 20.
Sir Oliver Simmons, wealthy
English business man with large
financial interests in the West
Indies, is not on board.
The ship has called at the
Azores, Trinidad and the West
Indies, where she took on board
her owner and sailed him to Miami. Then the schooner went to
Nassau.
After an "indefinite" stay in
Bermuda while minor engine
troubles are repaired the Janeen"
will return to Southampton, England.
The auxiliary schooner is skpi-
pered by Captain A. H. Taylor and
has a crew of 14 on board.
Captain .Taylor was in Bermuda during the war with the
Royal Navy. He spent last night
with friends he made here during
the war.
RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE
ON TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL
LAKE SUCCESS, April 25
(Reuter).—Russia, which until
now has boycotted the United
Nations Trusteeship Council, yesterday sent a brief letter to the
Secretary General, Mr. Trygve
Lie, naming S. K. Tsarapkin as its
representative on the Council,
United Nations Secretariat disclosed today.
The Council has faeld 'two sessions so far, but no Soviet representative has participated.
BUYERS FROM BERMUDA
FLOCKING TO BRITAIN
Industries Fair Will Aid
Drive To Earn Dollars
A large group of representatives of Bermuda business firms
are expected to visit England'during' May to attend the British Industries Fair, which is being held
this year at both London and Birmingham.
The British drive to earn dollars
with exports is attracting an unusual number of representatives
from the Colony, since Bermuda
is Britain's chief "show case" for
presenting her goods to the American buying public.
Among the merchants who will
attend tiie Fair are Mr. C. M.
"Billy" Wells, of Butterfield and
Company; Mr. Charles Burland,
of the Golden Gate; Mr. W. H.
Freisenbruch, bf Masters Limited;
Mr. Alexander Goudie, of the Gorham Lumber Company; Mr. F. J..
Pearce, of Peniston-Brown, Limited; Mr. Charles Collis, of Flitcroft
and Lightbourne; Mr. Fred
Aoschliman, of Trimingham
Brothers; Mr. Hugh Davidson and
Mr. J. S. Vallis for their own companies; Mr. George Mountain
representing the Electric Light
Company's plant and Mr. Eric
Dunch representing the company's
showrooms; Mr. Henry Vesey, of
the H. A. & E. Smith Company;
Mr. Gilbert Cooper, of A. S.
Cooper and Sons; and Mr. Brownlow -Eve, of the Atlantic Commission Agency.
The Fair, which is not open to
the public, attracts great numbers
of buyers and other official visitors
to Britain and gives them a complete picture of the products of
British industry with emphasis on
products whicfa can be readily supplied to overseas buyers.
Last year's Fair, working on the
slogan "Britain Can Make It," displayed a greater array of high
quality merchandise than the
country had ever before produced
and this year's exhibition is expected to surpass it.
(Special to The New form Times
and Tite Boyal Gazette) '
LONDON, April 25.—Tomorrow
it. ir ning at four minutes' past
eleven the King and Queert^ac-.
companied by their daughters
and son-in-law, will drive out
from Buckingham Palace to St.
Paul's Cathedral to commemorate
tbeir silver wedding with a service of thanksgiving.
Hundreds of thousands of Britons will cheer them on their
way. And in the evening, when
tiie King and Queen drive
through the streets of London's
east end and through the suburbs
of «outh and south-east London,
millions more will acclaim them.
Tonight there is a festive air
in tbe capital. The flags and
bunting that gladdened this mellow city for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth last November
are out again, and' window boxes
with ■spring flowers bedeck stores
and office buildings. Thousands
from the suburbs and out of
town ran on to the streets of tbe'
royal route and cheered Tbeir
Majesties on their return today
from -Windsor to Buckingham
Palace.
It was on April 26, 1923, that
the slight, reserved second son
of King George V and Queen
Mary wedded in Westminster
Abbey Lady Elizabeth Angela
Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the 14th
Earl of Strathftiore and King-
horne.
THE ABDICATION
As the Duke and Duchess of
York they lived simply with
tbeir family. The abdication of
King Edward VHI changed their
lives.
Their coronation in May, 1937,
brought loyal acclaim: tomorrow
their subjects will demonstrate
to the 52-year-old King and 47-
year-old Queen the mounting affection that had added to loyalty
year by year.
Dowager Queen Mary said
other members of the Royal
family will attend tomorrow's
service.
At 8.55 pan. the King and
Queen wiU broadcast in the
B.B.C. home and overseas services in a programme called "The
People's Greetings."
To mark the occasion the Paft.
Office has issued a spfcial set of
postage stamps photographically
depicting the head and shoulders
of the Royal pair in profile. The
Poet Laureate, Mr. John Mase-
fleid, has produced tfae following
poem:
Lines on the occasion of tbe
silver wedding of our King and
Queen:
We are within the Heavens, gons
of light,
Part of the splendid circle of the
One with the world eternity of
Nigfat,
One in a Law to worship and
obey.
By order and by beauty we declare
Our sense of what we are as
things divine,
We die, we breathe immortal air
Our loveliest thought accords
with the design.
No beauty and no order that we
make
Out shadows that to which our
lives belong,
Our Holiness and chaos are mistake
They do the wonder of our being
wrong.
All peonies upon earth exalt
their King /
As Accents for the Immanent un- '
seen;
They honour with all strength of
hand and mind
The consecrated forms of King
and Queen.
These, happy (to them a sacred
day),
Our hopes become a praying that
Ihe stress
Of these, their cruel years, may
pass away
An happy years succeed, and
Wisdom bless.
DENIES RUMOURS OF
GLOUCESTERS RETURN
An official spokesman at Prospect Garrison denied on Saturday
that the Gloucestershire Regiment,
which was sent to Jamaica about
six weeks ago when tiie controversy between Britain and Guatemala was at its height, was returning to Bermuda In the near
future.
He said the Garrison 'had received no official news ol the return of the regiment and that
these 'were no grounds for a report &Kt' tile regiment would be
returning about June 1 on the
transport, "Empire Windrush."
The transport will leave South-,
ampton en May 8, visiting Trinidad, Jamaica and Tampico, before
it arrives in Bermuda. It will
leave the Colony on June 8 and
arrive at Tilbury about June 18.
Rumours that the Gloucesters
would be returning on her spread
as soon as the ship's itinery was
announced on Saturday by Messrs.
Harnett and Richardson, her local
agents.

V
UGHTINC-UP TIME
7.26 p.m.
TIDE TABLE FOR APRIL
te High Water Low Water Bun- Sun-
A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. rise set
26 10.28 10.52 4.39 4.33 5.38 6.56
27 11.12 11.38 535 5.16 ,-5.37 6.57
28 12.00 6.14 6.04 5.36 6.57
YESTERDAY'S WEATHE1 '
Maximum Temperature - 73-4
Minimum Temperature -• 63
BainfaU Nil
Sunshine U hrs. 9 mins.
VOL. 28—NO. 99
HANSILTON, BERMUDA MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1948
MONIHT-FRIDAY 4B PER COW
SATURDAY - « - - SB PER COPY
Arabs Fleeing Jaffa Under
All-Out Jewish Offensive;
British Troops Intervene
By PETER JOLLIFFE
TEL AVIV, April 25 (Reuter).— British troops with
heavy anti-tank guns appeared tonight to have halted
a large scale attack on Jaffa,
largest all-Arab town in Palestine, by terrorists of the
Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi.
More than 12' hours after
gokig into action at dawn
under the heaviest mortar
barrage yet seen -in Palestine,'
Irgjia issued a communique
saying they had met British
j troops face to face this after-
\. n dock, yesterday
afternoon and hundreds of local
children and adults as well as
American tourists gave the ship
"the once over".
As soon as the gangway was put
in place at 2 o'clock a crowd of
Bermuda boys and girls scrambled
onto the deck and began an afternoon's "inspection" of the thousand and one fascinating gadgets
on a modern navy ship.
A third of the ship's company
was on board to act as guides for
the visitors and explain the various parts of the ship.
. Snipe arrived in Hamilton Harbour on Saturday morning and
Will remain until tomorrow morning. She is visiting the harbour
in order to give a fire-works display in honour of tiie King and
Queen's silver wedding anniversary today.
. The firework* display will be
given from the ship at 8 o'clock
tonight. The Snipe wiU moor in
the middle of the harbour for the
display, wfaich will include rockets. J iS^-f'.
The officers of the ship' gave a
cocktail party on the quarterdeck . on Saturday evening for
Hamilton civic officials and special guests. The Commander in
Chief, Vice Admiral Sir William
Tennant, attended.
A dance for the ship's company
will be held in Number 1 shed
after tiie fireworks display tonight.
mbsianM^arrested,
says chile newspaper
SANTIAGO, April 25 (Reuter)
:—The Chilean newspaper Impar-
cial reported that a Rumanian spy,
said to be chief of a Soviet espionage organisation, had been arrested in north Chile.
The newspaper, said the espionage organisation had ramifications
throughout America.
\
Dr. EJ?. Gordon, M.C.P., (otherwise "Mazumbo"), has announced
that he definitely will not stand
for St. George's in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections,
despite a request from what fae
termed "more than a cross-section" of freeholders from that
Parish.
When asked if his refusal to
Stand for St. George's meant he
would not be running in any
parish, Dr. Gordon replied; "It's
a good while from now to election
day; who knows what Will happen? I am only answering tfae
letter from the St. George's people,"
. The letter read: "You have faon,-
oured this parish for the past two
years as Qpe of our representatives in the Honourable House of
Assembly. In looking over your
record, we are satisfied that you
have fulfilled your promises to
Bermuda as the instrument by
which the White Paper document
has been forwarded to these Islands to probe into our social,
political and economic problems.
ft is our request as a representative section .of the town of St.
George's that you offer yourself
again as a candidate in the forthcoming general election for the
Parish of St. George's."
Dr. Gordon refused to disclose
tfie names of those persons signing the letter, stating that he had
promised he would not do so.
"Despite the honour that has
b^en offered me, I have not the
slightest intention of contesting
a seat &.$t. George's against any.
coloured candidate," Dr. Gordon
declared. ..#&s^
"I consider such opposition an
insult to my, honest and sincere
efforts in the interests of the underprivileged of Bermuda. It is
high time that I do like so many
others, and look after my own
interests. That is to say, pursue
my medical practice, which has
been largely sacrificed for a people who seem nbt to appreciate
anything unless it is paid for."
In addition to saying that he
would not be a candidate for St.
George's, Dr. Gordon made public
fais "reply" to statements made in
the Legislative Council on Friday
by the Hon. Sir Stanley Spurling.
"AMAZED" AT SIR STANLEY
"I was amazed to see that the
chairman of the Joint Committee should have attempted to
accuse the petition (of the B.WA.).
of containing untruths," fae commented.
Continued en Page 12
Bermuda's Greetings
To King And Queen
His Excellency the Governor has sent the following
message to the Secretary of
State for tiie Colonies on the
occasion of the Royal Silver
Wedding today:
"On behalf of myself aad
the people of Bermuda, I. request you to convey to Their
Majesties this Colony's loyal
greetings and congratulations
on the happy occasion of the
25th anniversary of their
wedding."
ENGLISH SCHOONER HERE
FROM THE WEST INDIES
With her 14& ft. twin masts
towering/ over the water-front
buildings the schooner "Janeen",
owned bv Sir Oliver Simmon?,
steamed into Hamilton Harbour
vesterdav afternoon and docked at
Number 6 Shed.
The schooner, which left Southampton, England on January 1,
was making, her last call on a
"business" voyage round the West
Indies and back to England.
The Janeen arrived in the Colony from Nassau, which she left
on April 20.
Sir Oliver Simmons, wealthy
English business man with large
financial interests in the West
Indies, is not on board.
The ship has called at the
Azores, Trinidad and the West
Indies, where she took on board
her owner and sailed him to Miami. Then the schooner went to
Nassau.
After an "indefinite" stay in
Bermuda while minor engine
troubles are repaired the Janeen"
will return to Southampton, England.
The auxiliary schooner is skpi-
pered by Captain A. H. Taylor and
has a crew of 14 on board.
Captain .Taylor was in Bermuda during the war with the
Royal Navy. He spent last night
with friends he made here during
the war.
RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE
ON TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL
LAKE SUCCESS, April 25
(Reuter).—Russia, which until
now has boycotted the United
Nations Trusteeship Council, yesterday sent a brief letter to the
Secretary General, Mr. Trygve
Lie, naming S. K. Tsarapkin as its
representative on the Council,
United Nations Secretariat disclosed today.
The Council has faeld 'two sessions so far, but no Soviet representative has participated.
BUYERS FROM BERMUDA
FLOCKING TO BRITAIN
Industries Fair Will Aid
Drive To Earn Dollars
A large group of representatives of Bermuda business firms
are expected to visit England'during' May to attend the British Industries Fair, which is being held
this year at both London and Birmingham.
The British drive to earn dollars
with exports is attracting an unusual number of representatives
from the Colony, since Bermuda
is Britain's chief "show case" for
presenting her goods to the American buying public.
Among the merchants who will
attend tiie Fair are Mr. C. M.
"Billy" Wells, of Butterfield and
Company; Mr. Charles Burland,
of the Golden Gate; Mr. W. H.
Freisenbruch, bf Masters Limited;
Mr. Alexander Goudie, of the Gorham Lumber Company; Mr. F. J..
Pearce, of Peniston-Brown, Limited; Mr. Charles Collis, of Flitcroft
and Lightbourne; Mr. Fred
Aoschliman, of Trimingham
Brothers; Mr. Hugh Davidson and
Mr. J. S. Vallis for their own companies; Mr. George Mountain
representing the Electric Light
Company's plant and Mr. Eric
Dunch representing the company's
showrooms; Mr. Henry Vesey, of
the H. A. & E. Smith Company;
Mr. Gilbert Cooper, of A. S.
Cooper and Sons; and Mr. Brownlow -Eve, of the Atlantic Commission Agency.
The Fair, which is not open to
the public, attracts great numbers
of buyers and other official visitors
to Britain and gives them a complete picture of the products of
British industry with emphasis on
products whicfa can be readily supplied to overseas buyers.
Last year's Fair, working on the
slogan "Britain Can Make It," displayed a greater array of high
quality merchandise than the
country had ever before produced
and this year's exhibition is expected to surpass it.
(Special to The New form Times
and Tite Boyal Gazette) '
LONDON, April 25.—Tomorrow
it. ir ning at four minutes' past
eleven the King and Queert^ac-.
companied by their daughters
and son-in-law, will drive out
from Buckingham Palace to St.
Paul's Cathedral to commemorate
tbeir silver wedding with a service of thanksgiving.
Hundreds of thousands of Britons will cheer them on their
way. And in the evening, when
tiie King and Queen drive
through the streets of London's
east end and through the suburbs
of «outh and south-east London,
millions more will acclaim them.
Tonight there is a festive air
in tbe capital. The flags and
bunting that gladdened this mellow city for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth last November
are out again, and' window boxes
with ■spring flowers bedeck stores
and office buildings. Thousands
from the suburbs and out of
town ran on to the streets of tbe'
royal route and cheered Tbeir
Majesties on their return today
from -Windsor to Buckingham
Palace.
It was on April 26, 1923, that
the slight, reserved second son
of King George V and Queen
Mary wedded in Westminster
Abbey Lady Elizabeth Angela
Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the 14th
Earl of Strathftiore and King-
horne.
THE ABDICATION
As the Duke and Duchess of
York they lived simply with
tbeir family. The abdication of
King Edward VHI changed their
lives.
Their coronation in May, 1937,
brought loyal acclaim: tomorrow
their subjects will demonstrate
to the 52-year-old King and 47-
year-old Queen the mounting affection that had added to loyalty
year by year.
Dowager Queen Mary said
other members of the Royal
family will attend tomorrow's
service.
At 8.55 pan. the King and
Queen wiU broadcast in the
B.B.C. home and overseas services in a programme called "The
People's Greetings."
To mark the occasion the Paft.
Office has issued a spfcial set of
postage stamps photographically
depicting the head and shoulders
of the Royal pair in profile. The
Poet Laureate, Mr. John Mase-
fleid, has produced tfae following
poem:
Lines on the occasion of tbe
silver wedding of our King and
Queen:
We are within the Heavens, gons
of light,
Part of the splendid circle of the
One with the world eternity of
Nigfat,
One in a Law to worship and
obey.
By order and by beauty we declare
Our sense of what we are as
things divine,
We die, we breathe immortal air
Our loveliest thought accords
with the design.
No beauty and no order that we
make
Out shadows that to which our
lives belong,
Our Holiness and chaos are mistake
They do the wonder of our being
wrong.
All peonies upon earth exalt
their King /
As Accents for the Immanent un- '
seen;
They honour with all strength of
hand and mind
The consecrated forms of King
and Queen.
These, happy (to them a sacred
day),
Our hopes become a praying that
Ihe stress
Of these, their cruel years, may
pass away
An happy years succeed, and
Wisdom bless.
DENIES RUMOURS OF
GLOUCESTERS RETURN
An official spokesman at Prospect Garrison denied on Saturday
that the Gloucestershire Regiment,
which was sent to Jamaica about
six weeks ago when tiie controversy between Britain and Guatemala was at its height, was returning to Bermuda In the near
future.
He said the Garrison 'had received no official news ol the return of the regiment and that
these 'were no grounds for a report &Kt' tile regiment would be
returning about June 1 on the
transport, "Empire Windrush."
The transport will leave South-,
ampton en May 8, visiting Trinidad, Jamaica and Tampico, before
it arrives in Bermuda. It will
leave the Colony on June 8 and
arrive at Tilbury about June 18.
Rumours that the Gloucesters
would be returning on her spread
as soon as the ship's itinery was
announced on Saturday by Messrs.
Harnett and Richardson, her local
agents.